Tag: Néstor Kirchner

Monday, May 27th 2013 - 08:26 UTC
Program on Kirchnerite corruption exposure beats football in Argentina

An Argentine investigative journalist program on alleged corruption involving former president Nestor Kirchner and his business cronies had a greater audience than a football match of Boca Juniors, the country’s most popular team disputing the Argentine premier league.
Wednesday, May 22nd 2013 - 23:08 UTC
Argentina's Judicial Reform: A Farewell to the Rule of Law and the Separation of Powers.

By Rodolfo Arrate (*) - The Argentine poet Jorge Luis Borges famously declared: “Democracy is an abuse of statistics”. Observing the evolution of the political regime in Argentina nowadays, the poet’s sentence may well have turned into a prophecy.
Wednesday, May 22nd 2013 - 02:12 UTC
Cristina prepares great rally to celebrate ten years of the Kirchnerite model

The Argentine government is preparing for a huge political demonstration next Saturday 25 May to be held in the Plaza de Mayo to celebrate 10 years since President Cristina Fernández late husband and predecessor Néstor Kirchner took office. It will also be a test ahead of the October mid-term election.
Wednesday, May 15th 2013 - 07:38 UTC
Allegations of a network of corruption money involves former president Kirchner

Argentine and Uruguayan magistrates and prosecutors are investigating an alleged network of corruption money, and probably money laundering involving former president Nestor Kirchner and close political and business cronies some of which continue in key positions or proximity to current head of state Cristina Fernandez.
Tuesday, May 14th 2013 - 18:58 UTC
Argentine inflation controversy: court vindicates private stats agencies

An Argentine appeals court threw out the fines that Domestic Trade Secretary Guillermo Moreno had slapped on private firms that issued inflation estimates that were much higher than the government’s official rate.
Monday, April 29th 2013 - 04:36 UTC
Lanata claims 80% of media in under Argentina government control for propaganda purposes

Argentine journalist Jorge Lanata who has won Spain’s Television Iris Award, claims that ‘80% of Argentine media is in the hands of government (President Cristina Fernandez)” which are used as “instruments of propaganda”.
Wednesday, April 17th 2013 - 08:06 UTC
Cristina Fernandez and Mujica could overcome incident at Maduro’s ceremony in Caracas

Argentina and Uruguay presidents could hold an unofficial meeting next Friday in Caracas when they attend the taking office ceremony of Venezuelan president next Friday, according to Montevideo diplomatic sources.
Monday, April 15th 2013 - 03:10 UTC
Mujica envoy to Buenos Aires to try and re-establish ‘normal contacts’ with Cristina Fernandez

Uruguay’s Deputy Foreign minister Roberto Conde is scheduled to travel to Buenos Aires this week as part of President Jose Mujica’s administration efforts to rebuild bilateral relations with Argentina following his ‘coarse, jail-slang’ descriptions of president Cristina Fernandez and her late husband Nestor Kirchner, which were refuted as ‘unacceptable and denigrating”.
Friday, April 12th 2013 - 06:50 UTC
Mujica ‘deepest apologies’ to Cristina Fernandez for the ‘coarse, jail-language’

“My deepest apologies to those whom I might have hurt with my words in recent days” said Uruguayan president Jose Mujica in his daily broadcast on Thursday, the first public apology for the controversial expressions he used last week to refer to Argentine president Cristina Fernandez and her late husband Nestor Kirchner.
Wednesday, April 10th 2013 - 10:22 UTC
Overwhelming support for Mujica’s comments on Cristina and Nestor Kirchner

A clear majority of Montevideo residents support Uruguayan president Jose Mujica controversial comments on Argentine President Cristina Fernandez and her deceased husband Nestor Kirchner, “the old lady is worse than the one eyed man”, according to an opinion poll made public on Tuesday by a local broadcasting station.